An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system, brought to you by Andy, Tarik, Tim, and Charles. ALAB aims to tell engaging stories about lawyers, legal cases, legal issues, or the legal profession more generally, with a focus on the outrageous, excessive, and/or absurd.
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The Alex Jones Miniseries 4: Because They Are True
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In the fourth installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik finish swimming in the muck and dry off in their mind palaces while imagining, "what if Alex Jones had mustered a competent defense?"Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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The Alex Jones Miniseries 3: They're Not Just Curious
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In the third installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik take their first dive into the muck being raked by, and in turn raking, Alex Jones.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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The Alex Jones Miniseries 2: Some Kind of Art Project
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In the second installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Tim, Charles, and Tarik discuss the horrific December 14, 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and its immediate aftermath.Voiceover work by Libby Kasch twitter.com/DasDing_DongMusic by David Shawtwitter.com/gloomfatherhttps://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/album/circular-seasonA…
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Episode 29: Mic ... Dicta?
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Andy, Charles, Tim and Tarik kick off a spate of piping hot new ALAB Series episodes with a zesty discussion about frosty iced creams and the frozen legal wasteland America's Mayor now calls home. Enjoy!Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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The Alex Jones Miniseries 1: A Great, Dark Wickedness
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In the first installment of the Alex Jones Miniseries, Andy, Charles, and Tarik explore how Alex became Alex, and how the nation became a little Alex too.All Music by David Shaw https://twitter.com/gloomfatherhttps://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/album/circular-seasonFor more information, join our friends over at Knowledge Fight www.knowledgefight.com.…
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Episode 28: Something Given Has No Value
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In perhaps the cruelest of his many attention-seeking stunts, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defies the will of Florida's citizens, who voted overwhelmingly to restore voting rights to their neighbors with prior felony convictions. Andy, Charles, Tim, and Tarik explore the derailing of a 150-year-long project to correct a lasting injustice.…
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Episode 27: COACH!
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Finally released from their months-long imprisonment for contempt of court, Andy and Tarik face down their most dangerous foe yet: Edward "Coach" Weinhaus.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 26: That Colossal Wreck
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Andy, Charles, Tarik, and Tim explore the hilarious meltdown of the Ozy Media empire, and discover a cautionary tale about corporate governance.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 25: Release the Crackpots
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Michael, Tim, Tarik, and newest ALAB-er Charles discuss the expansive sanctions order issued by a Michigan court against the intellectual architects of the so-called "Kraken" lawsuits that sought to invalidate the official results of the 2020 US Presidential election.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 24: The Scapegoat (Part Two)
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In the second and final part of their review of the U.S. government's unprecedented persecution of the Holy Land Foundation, Andy, Tarik and Tim -- again joined by podcast friend Rhiannon of fivefourpod.com -- analyze the two criminal trials that led to virtual life sentences for most of HLF's principals.…
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Episode 23: The Scapegoat (Part One)
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Just days after the 9/11 attacks, a scrambling Bush administration -- using tools gifted it by the Clinton administration's triangulated response to the Oklahoma City bombing -- needed to seem tough on terror. It set its sights on the Holy Land Foundation, then America's largest Muslim charity. Andy and Tim, joined by our good friend Rhiannon of fi…
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Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton
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Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim reflect on the 2007 Oscar-nominated film Michael Clayton. While the movie has been hailed as a masterwork of the legal thriller genre, how true to life is its portrait of the evil corporate lawyer?Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 21: The Racism's Baked Right In
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Andy, Michael, Tim, and Tarik discuss "race norming" and related statistical shenanigans being used in courts today -- most famously in the NFL's concussion class action settlement -- to disadvantage women and people of color, a facially indefensible practice that somehow goes virtually unchallenged.…
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Episode 20: Let's Lawyer Our Way Out
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In a companion piece to their episode on the plot to assassinate the governor of Michigan, Andy, Tarik, and Tim arrive three weeks late with their ill-informed, and in places ill-considered, takes on the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot and its fallout.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 19: Gerontocracy
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Andy, Tarik, and Tim are joined by guest Leo to discuss the crisis of aging, Alzheimer's, and dementia on the state and federal bench, an issue looming larger at all levels of government, and for which the judiciary is entirely and perhaps uniquely unprepared.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 18: These Things I See and More
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With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ascension of Amy Coney Barrett, a 6-3 right-wing majority appears locked in at the Supreme Court potentially for decades. To comfort grieving progressives, Andy, Tarik, and Tim take you on a mind journey to an alternate Earth where Hillary won and a plucky Dartmouth lad named Neal Katyal achieved his gr…
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Episode 17: Liberate Michigan!
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In their jumbo 17th episode, Andy, Tarik, and Tim review the disturbing case of the Wolverine Watchmen and their arrest for the planned kidnapping and/or arrest of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. They review the details of the case and then ponder the larger issues, including whether the plotters’ stated goals of founding a new society based on…
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Episode 16: The Bully (Part Two)
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In the second part of their study of the greatest lawyer to ever live, Alan Dershowitz, Andy, Tarik, and Tim delve deeper into the master's central art: the smear campaign. His scorched earth tactics and relentless smear jobs spare no one's reputation, perhaps not even his own.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 15: The Bully (Part One)
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In what is worst in the human soul can be found the most powerful tools of a lawyer's toolkit. Thus do Andy, Tarik, and Tim begin their studies at the feet of the Greatest Lawyer of All Time: Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. Part one examines the free speech warrior's years-long and ultimately successful campaign to destroy an academic who da…
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Episode 14: Epstein's Bank
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Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim teach you how to run an effective Anti-Money Laundering operation, by exploring all the myriad ways that Deutsche Bank failed to do so, breaking the rules again and again in its stunning relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 13: There Will Be Knots
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Michael, Tarik, and Tim explore the "Omegaverse" and find, among its other natural treasures, a nefarious tale of a plundering capitalist hell-bent on using the derricks of the law and courts to extract this magical land's value, to the exclusion of the communities that have tilled its soil for years.…
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Episode 12: Lawyer Brain, Pt. 4 - A Different Kind of Epstein Brain
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Andy, Tarik, and Tim discuss NYU law professor Richard Epstein's one-man crusade to defeat COVID-19 using the powers of logic and debate, and the frightening things the resulting debacle says about the American legal academy.Kirjoittanut All Lawyers Are Bad
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Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
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Back in the innocent days of Episode 7, Andy, Michael, and Tarik thought that US economic sanctions policy had reached its apex of stupidity. But COVID-19, as it has with so many things, shows them that no, things can always get stupider. A lot stupider. Join them as they explore the "might makes right" underpinnings of international law from the A…
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Episode 10: Hard R
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The struggling BDS movement under legislative assault. The First Amendment increasingly used as a cynical deregulatory tool for big business. What's a legal scholar obsessed with free speech to do? That's right: drop the Hard R.Join Andy, Tarik, and Tim as they examine the current state of free speech in America.…
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Episode 9: Mike's Charnel-House for Children
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Sure, presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's apologies for his "stop and frisk" policies ring hollow on their face. But they're even worse when placed in the context of the systemic brutality of New York's street-to-Rikers Island pipeline. Andy, Tarik, and Tim walk through the morass of hard-fought litigation Bloomberg waged to defend that pipelin…
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